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Delve into the history and culture that has shaped America through the ages.

See when historic events occurred and when our hotels opened their doors in this interactive timeline. Scroll to the left and right to view the various time periods and learn more about our nation's rich history.

July 21st, First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), known as the first battle of the Civil War fought in Virginia1862April 6th-7th, The Battle of Shiloh in southwestern Tennesse

June 25th - July 1st, Seven Days Battles in Virginia

August 29th - 30th, The Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) fought in Virginia

September 17th, Battle of Antietam fought in Maryland and resulted in the single bloodiest day in American military history1862-1863December 31st - January 2nd, Battle of Stones River in Tennessee results in more than 25,000 casualties

1863West Virginia is 35th state admitted1864Nevada is 36th state admitted

Ford Model T appears on market1909The U.S. penny is changed to the Abraham Lincoln design

NAACP founded by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington proposes the idea of a father's day.1910Boy Scouts of America chartered

1909-1913William Howard Taft serves as president

1911Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil1912RMS Titanic sinks

Theodore Roosevelt shot, but not killed, while campaigning for the Bull Moose Party

1912New Mexico is 47th state admitted

Arizona is 48th state admitted

1912Elihu Root is Nobel Prize Winner In Peace

1913-1921Woodrow Wilson serves as president

1914Mother's Day established as a national holiday

Federal Trade Commission created

Woodrow Wilson establishes the first national mother's day holiday1915First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated.1916U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) for $25 million.

Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

1914-1918World War I

1917Virgin Islands annexed1918Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S., 500,000 perish.1919Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor.

1919Woodrow Wilson is Nobel Prize Winner In Peace

1920Panama Canal completed

1921-1923Warren G. Harding serves as president

1923-1929Calvin Coolidge serves as president

1925Charles G. Dawes is Nobel Prize Winner In Peace

1926NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network1927Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.1928Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

1932Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband.1933Franklin Delano Roosevelt sworn in as President; he is the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.

21st Amendment, ending Prohibition

TVA develops resources of Tennessee River1934Dust Bowl begins

1933-1945Franklin D. Roosevelt serves as president

1936Hoover Dam Completed1937Hindenburg disaster, killing 35 people and marking an end to airship travel

Soviets launch Sputnik; "space race" begins1958NASA formed as the U.S. begins ramping up efforts to explore space

1959Alaska is 49th state admitted

Hawaii is 50th state admitted

1960Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, spurs similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.1961Peace Corps established.

1960-1975Vietnam War1961Bay of Pigs Invasion

1961-1963John F. Kennedy serves as president

1962Linus Pauling is Nobel Prize Winner In Peace1964Martin Luther King is Nobel Prize Winner In Peace

1963-1969Lyndon B. Johnson serves as president

1964The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show

1965Malcolm X assassinated in Harlem, New York

1717Benjamin Franklin invents wooden swim fins

1744Benjamin Franklin invents Mail order

1765The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America.

1767The Townshend Acts places a tax on common products imported into the American Colonies, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea

1776The first ice cream parlor in America opened in New York City.

Thomas Jefferson invents the swivel chair

1784Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses

1789The Treasury Department is established. It is the second oldest department in the Federal Government.

1792Coinage Act established the United States Mint.

Traders formalized their association with the Buttonwood Agreement which was the origin of the New York Stock Exchange.1793United States begins minting the penny

1914Clayton Act passed, restricting mergers between companies1916Child Labor Act passed, setting a national minimum age of 14 in industries producing nonagricultural goods for interstate commerce or for export

1914Theodore W. Richards is Nobel Prize Winner In Chemistry

1916Albert Einstein proposes General Theory of Relativity

1918Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy

1920Treasury begins to buy silver at one dollar an ounce, as required by the Pittman Act of 1918

1921Earle Dickson invents bandage, adhesive

1923Robert A. Millikan is Nobel Prize Winner In Physics

1924Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics

1926Revenue Act passed, cutting taxes of those earning $1M or more by two-thirds

Stock market prices peak, with New York Times index of industrial stocks at 4521931Committee for Unemployment Relief releases a report on unemployment showing that 4 to 5 million Americans were out of work.